Wind-shield.



A. W. CROUCH.

WIND SHIELD. APPLICATION "LED OCT. 16, 19H.

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Patentfd Feb. 8, 1916.

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A. W. CROUCH.

WIND SHIELD.

APPLICATION FILED 0m. 16, I914.

Patented Feb. 8, 1916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT w. CROUCH, o MIL AI JKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGN'OR. TO MILWAUKEE YAcH'r a BoA'r coM-PANY, or MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

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specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8. 1916.

Application filed October 16, 1914. Serial No. 866,950.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT V. CROUCH, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Milwau'kee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of \Visconsin, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Vind- Shields, of-which the following is a full,

clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to wind shields and is more particularly arr-improvement over my co-pending application Serial No. 818,849, filed Feb. 16, 1914. In my said copending application I disclose a disappearing wind shield.

My present invention herein is designed to provide a disappearing windshield for antomobiles or similar conveyances in which the wind shield is mounted in connection with a door, the door having provision to accommodate the wind" shield when in its disappearing position.

In the preferred form of the invention I arrange the wind shield in two halves mounted at the opposite sides of the vehicle so that the wind shield may be swung about its pivot and the adjoiningcnds fastened together when in its active position. hen the wind shield is to be removed. the two halves are swung abouttheir pivots and dropped into compartments, one or more of which compartments may be carried by a swinging door. I will explain this form of carrying out my invention more in detail by referring to the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a side view of an automobile having the wind shield of my invention in its active position, showing in dotted lines its disappearing position; Fig. 2 1s a top fragmentary view of the structure outlined in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a fragmentary top v ew somewhat similar to. Fig. 2 showing the means for holding the twoadjoining ends of the wind shield together; Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a door showing the wind shield accomm dated therein; Fig. 5 is an enlarged detz sectional view on line a a of Fig. 2; Fig. is a sectional view on-hne bb of Fig. and Fig. 7 is a top view of the door showing the hinged cover plate.

. My improved wind shield is designed to be constructed preferably of two halves l and 2, which when in their active position as shown more clearly in Fig. 5 rest on top of a pyramidal ridge 3. The lower portions of the framework of the wind shield are grooved to set on top of this ridge so as to hold the shield inits active position. In addition to this supporting structure a bolt l having the finger piece 5 is provided which Is mounted in theframework of the wind. shield section 1 and is adapted to be pushed into an aperture of the sectionQ- as shown more clearly in Fig. 3 to thereby more thor' oughly prevent displacement of the wind shield when .in its active position. I have shown an automobile body 6 to which the wind shield is applied, this body being shown as having doors 7, 7. Of course it can be readily seen that under certain condi tions that only one door need be used-and I donot wish to be limited to the use of two doors in this particular structure. The doors '7 are pivotally mounted as will presently appear and are hollow so that they can acconnnoda-te within their interior the wind shield sections 1 and 2 respectively. These wind shield sections are pivotally supported within the door, being pivoted about the same axis that the door is pivoted, thus to permit opening and closing of the door irre spective of whether the wind shield is in its active position or not. The hollow door carries a cylindrical tube -8 fastened thereto through the agency of the plate 9 and screws 10. This cylindrical tube preferably extends below the door as shown more clearly in Fig. 4c and is pivotally mounted-within a plate 9 fixedly secured in the framework of the vehicle, the elements 8 and 9 providing the lower pivotal mounting'for the door. The door is pivotally mounted at its upper extremity by having a circular strap 11 into which a depending finger 12- extends as shown more clearly in Figs. 5 and 6. The depending finger of course is adapted to slide in the annular recess provided between the elements 11 and 8 as more clearly apparent from Fig. 6. The wind shield sections preferably have similar pivotal andalso be raised or. lowered, the two elements 8 and 12, thus being telescopic in character. A strip 13 having a cross-section'as shown more clearly in Fig. 6 is slidably mounted within-the tube 12 and is prevented from rotation relative to said tube by the-bar 14, the two members 13 and 12 thus being telescopic relative to each other. The element 13 also has near its lower extremity a catch adapted to engage the bar 14 so that when the strip 13 is elevated sufiicien'tly it draws the tube 12 upwardly with it when in its further upward movement. The wind shield section 1- is pivoted to the strip 13 by the hinge' plate 16. When the wind shield is in its disappearing position the top of the door is closed by the cover plate 17 hinged at 18 carrying a supplemental flap 19.

Assuming now that the wind shield is to be moved from its disappearing position of Fig.- 4 to its active position of Figs. 1 or 5,

. moved upon the ridge In this position thenthe wind shield section 1 iselevated by having the element 13 'slidewithin the tube 12 until the catch 15 engages the bar 14,- whereafter upon further upward movement of-the section'l thetube 12 also slides upwardly relatively to the' fixed tube'8. 'A'fter the wind shield. section has been. ole-1 vated sufi iciently to clear'thel'ridge 3 it is swung about its axis by the relative movementbetween these elements 8- and. 12 and it will be seen that the wind shield section extends slightly above the "tube member 12" asshown moreclearly in F ig 1. The bolt 1 is then slid into place and the wind shield sections" present a continuous barrier across the front of the vehicle. In this position it will be noted that the flap. 19 -.of'course remains open. It will also be noted that the door can be opened and closed even though the windshield is in its active position as relative rotative moyements; between the elements Sand 12 is permitted when the. wind shield is in such'active pos tion.

It is of course readily seen from Fig. 5,

that the angular portion-19 of the strip 13 does not extend into the element when. the wind shield is in its active position, thus permittingof the relative rotation as stated.

It is further 'to be noted more clearly by an inspection of Figs. 3 and 6 that those eX-.

tremities of the sections at which these sections are pivoted-are also quite rigidlyheld inposition by resting within the rectangular portions 20 of the strip 13.

I From what has been described the nature of my invention will be clear to those skilled in the art.

Having however thus described one form which my invention may take, what claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Apparatus of .the character described 6- comprising a 'pivotally mounted door having a pocket, a wind shield having a pivotal mounting substantially concentric with the pivotal mounting of said door and 'slidable into and out of the pocket in said door, said -w1nd shield'when in operative .p'ositionby virtue of its pivotal mounting being substantially at right angles' to'saiddoor. ,2. Apparatus of the, character described comprising a pivotally niounted door hav- 7 ing a pocket a windshield, means whereby said wind shield may be slid into and out of said pocket, and means for pivotally carrya ing said wind shield so that said windshield may be swung at an angle to said door when 8 said windshield is tobccupy its operative position. n 1 I 3. Apparatus of the character described comprising a pivotally mounted door having apocket, a wind shield having a pivotal 8 mounting substantially concentric with the pivotal mounting of said door, means whereby said wind shield may be slid into and out of the pocket in said door, said wind shield when in its operativeposition outside 9 of said-pocket beingadaptedto be swung about its pivotal mounting at an angle to said door. 7 s

4. Apparatus of tlie character described comprising adoor having a pocket, a wind 9 .shield,.1neans for concentrically pivotally mounting said door an wind shield, and means whereby said wind sh eld may be slid into and out of saidpockchsaid wind shield when inoperative position by i'ir- 1 shield when inoperative position byvirtue v of its pivotal mounting being adapted'to be I swung at anj'angle to said door, and to maintain said position without interfering with the swinging of said (1001'.

In witness whereof, :I hereuntosubsciibe my name this 7th day of October, A. D. 1914. I

, ALBERT w. onoUci'i'.

lVitnesses A. G. JAEGER, Ja s. B. lVELcii. 

